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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

In full: The 1,000+ DUP WhatsApp messages published and then deleted by the Covid Inquiry

Here are the more than 1,000 internal text messages between some of the DUP's most senior figures which were publishe...

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4 months ago
belfastlive.co.uk

Covid inquiry Belfast LIVE stream as Arlene Foster and Former PSNI ACC Alan Todd to give evidence

Arlene Foster and Former PSNI Assistant Chief Constable are giving evidence on the penultimate day of the inquiry in ...

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4 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Devastating examination of Michelle O’Neill leaves her flapping – and shows her evidence was misl...

Never in her 19-year career as a politician has Michelle O'Neill been as hopelessly at sea about a matter of such pro...

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5 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stormont official tried to destroy messages about Sue Gray BBC interview following ‘scary convers...

A BBC interview with Sue Gray where she dismissed claims she was a spy was 'unauthorised' and sparked fury, text mess...

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5 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

With its secrecy stripped away, the rottenness of the Stormont system is being exposed

After just four hearings of the Covid Inquiry in Belfast, already layer after layer of Stormont’s deep secrecy has be...

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5 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Former head of NI Civil Service did delete messages from two phones – despite telling Covid Inqui...

A former head of the civil service told the Covid inquiry she hadn't deleted any relevant messages from her phone - w...

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5 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stormont’s shambolic politicking as people died led Chief Medical Officer to despair of ‘dysfunct...

Northern Ireland's chief medical officer referred to Executive ministers as "dysfunctional b******s", it has emerged,...

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9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

A strong Christian faith is my ‘anchor’ in politics, Donaldson tells GB News’ Foster

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has described how his strong Christian belief helps guide him through the “storms” of frontline...

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11 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Once-lucrative RHI boiler can’t even be sold for £1 as hundreds drop out of bungled scheme

RHI boilers were once licences to print money – but now people are selling them at knock-down prices and one man is s...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The world has changed so much in a decade... it is sobering to think what the future holds

A decade ago today, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and other world leaders flew into Northern Ireland fo...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP could enter coalition with Labour after next election, Dame Arlene Foster says

The DUP could enter a coalition with Labour if the next election delivers a hung parliament, former leader Dame Arlen...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

If Stormont returns as it was, it will be another disaster - we need to consider radical change

In the early years of the Cold War when the battle between communism and democracy was at its height, candidates for ...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP’s NI Protocol dilemma: Clear that most of its seven tests not met

For more than a year and a half, the DUP has bored anyone in earshot by repeating the mantra that any deal on the NI ...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP’s Edwin Poots reveals he was subjected to verbal abuse including ‘up the Ra’ phrase during fl...

DUP Assembly member Edwin Poots has said he was subjected to “verbal abuse” on a flight from Glasgow to Belfast Inter...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Peter Weir sworn into House of Lords as Dame Arlene offers ex-DUP pal ‘huge congratulations’

Former DUP MLA Peter Weir has been officially sworn into the House of Lords on Thursday morning.

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald condemns ‘Up the Ra’ video

The president of Sinn Fein has condemned the behaviour of a woman at the centre of the Arlene Foster ‘oh, ah, up the ...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Michelle O’Neill reacts to pro-IRA chanting video filmed next to Dame Arlene Foster

Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill has said people need to be “careful and very sensitive” in public discourse after a woma...

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almost 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Boris Johnson met with son of ex-KGB oligarch the day after he was sanctioned

The then-Prime Minister met with Lord Lebedev the day after his father was hit by war sanctions in Canada. Former spy...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Arlene Foster receives Damehood during Windsor Castle ceremony

Dame Arlene Foster has officially received her Damehood during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘Momentum behind Boris’ claims Dame Arlene Foster, who questions whether Rishi Sunak ‘has fight i...

The former First Minister Dame Arlene Foster has claimed there is “momentum building behind Boris” for the Tory leade...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Dame Arlene Foster and former DUP MLA Peter Weir confirmed for peerage to House of Lords

Former first minister Dame Arlene Foster has officially been granted a peerage in the House of Lords, it has been con...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: Where it all went wrong: DUP’s last six years have hurt it... and the Union

Almost seven years ago, the DUP hierarchy were lords of all they surveyed.

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Parts of Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini budget were ‘monumentally stupid’, claims Arlene Foster

Dame Arlene Foster has branded parts of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s financial statement as “monumentally stupid”.

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

How many tuned in to GB News’ live Twelfth coverage fronted by Dame Arlene Foster and ex-Coronati...

GB News has said its live coverage of the Twelfth of July in Northern Ireland was its highest-rating programme yester...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Stunned Peter Robinson leads NI tributes to assassinated former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

Former First Minister Peter Robinson has told of his shock after the assassination of ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shin...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Not easy for Stormont to explain why it broke its promise to RHI claimants, department’s lawyer a...

The RHI scheme was never intended to subsidise the main business of companies in Northern Ireland, a barrister for th...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Arlene Foster’s RHI guarantee read in court as boiler owners seek to reverse subsidy cuts

Arlene Foster’s personal cast iron guarantee about the all but unalterable nature of RHI subsidies was read in the Co...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: Far more to protocol stance of PMs than they let on, suggests senior civil servant

As swathes of the NI Protocol are perhaps about to be torn up, new light has been shed on how this document came abou...

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over 2 years ago
belfastlive.co.uk

Elon Musk's Twitter free speech plan could be "nightmare for users" - Paul Tweed

"I think it could be on one hand, a lawyer's dream but on the other hand, a user's nightmare."

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: It’s no surprise that Stormont’s lost... it can’t even agree a roadmap for ruling

As anyone who has started a diet or made a New Year’s resolution will know, deciding what you want to do is no guaran...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Paul Bell: DUP veteran who quit after ousting of Arlene Foster ‘delighted’ to run for party in As...

A veteran DUP member who quit after the ousting of Arlene Foster says he is “delighted” to be running for the party i...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Paul Bell: DUP veteran who quit after ousting of Arlene Foster ‘delighted’ to run for party in As...

A veteran DUP member who quit after the ousting of Arlene Foster says he is “delighted” to be running for the party i...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Up to £660m of RHI money may go unspent by Stormont

Stormont is on course to waste at least £420m — and perhaps as much as £660m — over the next 20 years due to its fail...

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over 2 years ago
belfastlive.co.uk

Michael Conlan on polarising opinion and being viewed as a "mad bigot"

“I’ve always been honest and up front about who I am. I wouldn’t be true to myself if I did hide it. Has it cost me f...

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP veteran Paul Bell who quit over treatment of former leader Arlene Foster set to run for party...

A DUP veteran who quit over the treatment of former leader Arlene Foster is set to run for the party in the Assembly ...

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over 2 years ago
belfastlive.co.uk

The Earth's Corr: Our government has screwed us all royally on oil and gas prices

This magical idea prices will fall if we let companies drill fossil fuels in NI is absolute rubbish

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over 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: Secrecy and power... what Sue Gray’s two NI sojourns reveal about her

Mystique surrounds Sue Gray as lies surround the man whose career now rests in her hands — if even she could now save...

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almost 3 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP Spad Emma Little-Pengelly was paid £20k when her role ended after Arlene Foster exit

A departing DUP special adviser received a severance payment running to thousands of pounds after her role ended this...

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almost 3 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

DUP Spad Emma Little-Pengelly paid £20k when role ended after Arlene Foster exit

A departing DUP special adviser received a severance payment running to thousands of pounds after her role ended this...

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